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This book will introduce you to another, different world of auctions. For instance: the domain "business.com" has been auctioned for $7.5 million and is therefore the most expensive web address ever. But not only are the superlatives like the highest price or having the most bidders the auction highlights. The real gems are, inconspicuously at first, among the totally normal auctions. Bizarre, funny, astonishing, unexpected, shocking - just: amazing!

Weddings have always been very special events in all countries and cultural environments- they honour love. Therefore this ceremony between two people loving each other is being used to celebrate the most impressive and remarkable events-glamorous and posh-or just to do something really extraordinary. Even in history books you can read about great and unique weddings like the nuptials of Prince Charles and Diana or one of the latest ones, Liz Hurley getting married to Arun Nayar, her Indian billionaire. Exactly these special weddings will be presented in the book Amazing Weddings, it will even contain events that outbid all the extraordinary you have seen until today. You will find spectacular venues for tying the knot, unknown traditions and ceremonies as well as people who turned getting married into their profession and are now organizing and arranging these events and are making sure this day will really be the one to remember. This book will be for those willing to get married, romantics and those who are still as happily in love as on the day they met.

Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it.
Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices.

This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers in the world today – such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Inez van Lamsweerde, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sam Taylor-Wood and many more.

Introductions to each section outline the current genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes. Each photographer’s work is then presented in sequence, with commentaries by the author highlighting the art’s most important aspects. A general introduction sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century and discusses the art world’s embrace of the medium in recent decades.

Art Photography Now is a truly comprehensive guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography.

Best friends are worth their weight in gold, from the friend who stuck up for you in school to the one who props you up when everything gets too much. Your best friend may be the one who makes you laugh, smile, shout, perhaps even cry, but throughout it all they'll be the one who is there for you no matter what. This sweet book contains 50 wonderful photographs and quotations celebrating the enduring nature of true friendship.

Bimbos and machos: a match made in heaven. Both are twentieth century cultural phenomena that are unrivalled in their vulgarity. And they are everywhere! With examples from TV, film, comics, games, literature, music and real celebrity life, this book attempts to explore the bimbo and macho universe and pay tribute to the greatest bimbos and machos of all time, both fictional and real - Jordan, Anna-Nicole Smith, Pamela Anderson, Lolo Ferrari, Britney Spears, Sabrina; David Hasselhof, Julio Iglesias, Tubbs & Crockett, Bruno - get ready to meet them as you have never seen them before!

The definitive survey of contemporary photography of the human body

The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body. No longer a tool but a work-in-progress, our bodily expectations bound from fantasy to reality, beauty to tyranny, art to commerce and curiosity to obsession, leaving us dreaming of other bodies and alternate lives.

Surveying a range of over 360 photographic re-presentations from the worlds of art, fashion, scientific and vernacular photography – including the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Bettina Rheims, Lauren Greenfield, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Daido Moriyama, Sally Mann, Pieter Hugo, Juergen Teller, Sølve Sundsbø and Daniel Sannwald – Body explores what our imaging of the human form, and the ways in which those images have been used and shared, might reflect of our relationship to the body. Supporting the broad range of photography is an essay by the psychologist Professor David Sander, Ph.D., discussing the neurological representation of our own bodies

About the Author:

Nathalie Herschdorfer is an author and curator specialised in photography. She is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland, and a curator with FEP (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography). She has written a number of books amongst which are Afterwards, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography, Coming into Fashion and reGeneration, all published by Thames & Hudson.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Physique • 2. Alter Ego • 3. Essay • 4. Constructions • 5. Mutations • 6. Celebration • 7. Essay • 8. Flesh • 9. Love

A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes itself upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying state-of-the-art technology. As veritable aesthetic creations, bridges appear today not only as examples of masterful engineering, but also as incredible works of art. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modern-day sculptures.

Celebrating BUTT magazine`s fifth anniversary, this book is a selection of the most fantastic and the most ridiculous
interviews and photos that have appeared in BUTT so far. This anthology also finally makes a lot of material from the now rare, earlier issues of BUTT available again. For your (in)convenience, the timeline in the book runs backwards, from the here and now all the way back to the summer of 2001, when the first issue of BUTT landed with a bang.

Like the magazine itself, this book offers an often amazingly realistic view on today`s homosexual man, including conversations with Michael Stipe, Gus van Sant, Rufus Wainwright,Marc Jacobs, as well as contributions from Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Hedi Slimane, Asianpunkboy, and Helmut Lang, just to name a few. "BUTT has single-handedly pioneered the notion of a smart, literate gay magazine yet also manages to be very dirty," notes filmmaker Bruce LaBruce in his foreword. "BUTT matters. BUTT fills a hole."

With sexy pictures of, and candid interviews with: Asianpunkboy, Bruce Benderson, Peter Berlin, AA Bronson, Christopher Ciccone, Martin Degville, Tommy Deluca, Ed Droste, Al Eingang, Thomas Engel Hart, Marc Jacobs, Heinz Peter Knes, Marcelo Krasilcic, Bruce LaBruce, Inez van Lamsweerde, Lutz, Ryan McGinley, Alasdair McLellan, Matmos, Walter Pfeiffer, Terry Richardson, Paul Rutherford, Gus van Sant, Jeremy Scott, Jake Shears, Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, Jonsi Thor Birgisson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Viktor & Rolf, Dominic Vine, Matthias Vriens, Rufus Wainwright, John Waters, Edmund White, Bernhard Willhelm, and Jonny Wooster.

In the last sixty years certain celebrities have really left an indelible mark on history: Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, Yoko Ono...This book represents a stroll through this aspect of popular culture - a compilation of biographical photographs of over 300 celebrities (actors, artists, pop stars, politicians, models, media stars) who will always be unforgettable. Illustrated throughout with over 400 full colour and black-and-white iconic photographs.

A visual history of the 20th century, the photographs in this volume cover events which range from the hard history of politics to new inventions, the arts, society and fashion. The images have been drawn from international agencies such as Life, Magnum, Picture Post and Stern. The book is divided into six chronological sections corresponding to significant historical moments. Each section opens with a short historical overview which introduces the main concerns during the period covered. There is also a selection of quotations which capture the flavour of the period covered. There are extended captions at the end of each section providing historical information about each photograph.

This selection of over 1,000 photographs was assembled under the direction of the photo editor of London's Sunday Times Magazine, Bruce Bernard, who provided the text. These photographs provide a wide scope of 20th-century life. Most are documentary in style, representing major historical events, but the worlds of fashion, entertainment and popular culture are represented, too.

A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance hour by hour, offering countless facets to the passer-by.
While the light of morning pulls the city from its torpor and renews it for the dawning day, the nocturnal illumination plunges the pedestrian into the strangeness of its mysteries, creating a striking and ephemeral beauty. Between the shadow and the light, these original photographs reveal the fragile glow of the city, and help us rediscover the eternal pulse of these great capitals, simultaneously surprising and sublime.

Изображения из этой книги – это то, что делает магию фотографии такой неотразимой. В значительной степени сила этой книги лежит в непосредственном соседстве образов, некоторые из которых комичные, а другие заставляют задуматься.
Захватывающие, культовые, удивительные или просто красивые изображения!

This book will take you on a trip around the globe and show you different places full of surprises, myths and legends, all telling their own stories, on every continent.
Special moments leave special marks on world history. Picture Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon, the fall of the Berlin wall or the election of the first African-American president of the United States. Massive scandals find recurring attention throughout the years, groundbreaking achievements in science and glorious sport successes are keptin good memory. Touching speeches or heroic gestures attained eternal fame, not to forget prominent scenes of movies as Casablanca. On 400 richly illustrated pages, Cult Moments highlights a fascinating mixture of these tragic, happy and curious moments too sublime to be forgotten.

There are products that are different from other products, they are striking and stand out from the crowd. Cult Masterpieces pays respect to these products and presents them on 400 richly illustrated pages. A combination of beautiful design, a touch of exclusiveness and a unique history turn a normal product into a phenomenon - they become cult. They fascinate people beyond all social boundaries and influence the image of an entire generation. From a car to a piece of clothing to a coffee machine, cult products are found in all areas and are passionately revered by many people. What they all have in common, what connects Coca-Cola with the Kelly Bag by Hermès, is a certain attitude toward life that they represent and the inspiration they exude - in the past, today and even in the future.

Special moments in our lives leave special marks on the whole of world history. Picture Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall or the election of the first black President of the United States. Massive scandals resonate down the years; groundbreaking achievements in science and glorious successes in sport are also etched in the collective memory. Moving speeches and heroic gestures achieve eternal fame, and pivotal scenes from favourite movies become as real to us as memories of our own lives. This gorgeous illustrated book highlights and celebrates these special moments. It provides a fascinating mixture of tragic, happy and extraordinary moments that should never be forgotten.